Our Mission

To cultivate radically inclusive, compassionate, and empowered communities through trauma-informed, equity-centered work designed to drive sustainable change.

Our Vision

We believe in building a culture where trauma is recognized, healing is paramount, relationships are the primary value, and equity is a universal goal.

Why We’re Here

Resilient Futures is a non-profit organization founded in 2018. We focus on building resilient communities that promote healing and well-being through collaboration, education, and community engagement. We hold a central belief in the strength of creating meaningful partnerships that can collectively work to help individuals, communities, and systems thrive.

As a commitment to our Values, Resilient Futures utilizes a person-centered approach to support schools and youth-serving communities, and community institutions on their journey of becoming trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and inclusive of all members.

Our Values

Our values act as underlying principles that guide our work as an organization and among the individuals and communities we serve.

  • Human connection has the potential to heal in extraordinary ways. When others help us shoulder the weight of systemic inequities, isolation, and trauma, individuals can access communal support and collective healing. Connection that is grounded in trauma-informed equity-centered practices prioritizes compassion-led behaviors that strengthen the quality of our personal and communal relationships.

  • Humility is a primary catalyst for positive change. Confronting experiences with trauma requires us to first examine our own limiting beliefs and inherent bias with heightened awareness. Embracing self-reflection while engaging others with openness and curiosity dismantles our personal and systemic biases. This practice of humility opens doors to a profound future where compassion, empathy, and true belonging are actualized for all.

  • Systemic discrimination, lack of representation, racial, cultural, and sexual bias, violence, and abuse have traumatized individuals and communities for generations. These are highly complex issues – and many don’t know where to start when it comes to creating real change. Our collaborative approach with trauma-informed equity-centered practices is grounded in research. Our expertise lets us be responsive and adaptive, helping to identify multiple entry points to begin the work. In partnership, we co-create tailored, contextual, and growth-centered capacity building to support sustainable growth while acknowledging that the change process requires tenacity and patience. We build upon and deepen the strengths of the diverse individuals and communities we serve.

  • A more equitable future is not an outcome – it is an ongoing process that compels us to examine how our different identities and experiences manifest as we live our lives today. Equity is digging into the historic and present-day disparities among us, in a deliberate effort to name and repair harm caused by these disparities. Confronting equity issues requires responsiveness, humility, and connection.

Committed to our Mission since 2018

The Phoenix flower

With only a few drops of water, the Phoenix flower can be revived from dehydration and thrive. Like the Phoenix flower, through centralizing relationships and providing opportunities to relate & reflect, we can then restore and renew as individuals and communities.

Give to further our Mission

More than ever, our schools and youth-serving communities are in need of trauma-informed, equity-centered training and resources. Your tax-deductible gift will directly fund our program expansion efforts, enabling us to provide trauma-informed training and resources to a greater number of educators, schools, and youth-serving organizations.

Annual Reports

Making an Impact

  • “Just today, I addressed a racial statement made by another person. My training has made me more efficacious about my anti-racist actions.”

  • "This training forced me to continue pushing for more diverse curriculum in an area that is comfortable with what they know. It's reminded me that relationships come before academics when trauma is involved."

  • "I leave each workshop knowing that I have a lot of work to do on my own equity journey. My biggest area of growth is I have learned to listen and empathize.”

  • “I just want to say that it was an incredible panel and a really good workshop series. Just super good to remind future teachers about the compassion that you should have for your students.”

  • "The first training was so impactful that I decided to study Trauma Informed Teaching for an entire semester for a research course. This is such important work, I wish everyone (in and out of education) could be exposed to this information!”

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Anti-Discrimination Policy

Resilient Futures is an Equal-Opportunity employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind.

Resilient Futures is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Resilient Futures prohibits discrimination or harassment based on race, color, national and ethnic origin, religion, gender, gender expression, age, disability, marital status, creed, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law in any of its activities. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and is free from discriminatory practices, including without limitation harassment. Resilient Futures will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.